Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-09-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

OOO,OOO CSIdIc
Lebanon, Penna., has two brother
who are horse thieves at the ages of l.
and Is years.
General Longstreet lives in a farm
house on the summit of a ridge In
North Georgia.
Big bouquets of mignonette are
carried by the young women at the
summer resort hops.
The reflection of electric lights at
PoughKeepsie, New York, is seen dis.
tance of sixteen miles.
"A dead man is the sole inhaDitant
of the once lourishing town of Soil.
taire, near Kingston.
The valuation of Scott county,
Kansas, two years ago was 3, coo.
This year it IS 100000.
Col. Watterson has dis covered IL
New York drink composed of brandy,
eggs and coffee, and called sabbath
calm.D
If Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, realls
wishes to make his reign a success. he
should engage Buffalo Bill for a short
season.
Nine hundred and fifty women In
Iowa own and manage farms. Six
more have stock farms and twenty
dairy farms.
Fine punches of dates have been
successfully grown and ripened. it Is
stated, on land in Santa Barbara
county, California.
Carriages were first introduced
into England in 1880, and were for a
long time used only for the conveyance
of the sick and or ladies'.
"A Phillips, Maine, man admits be-
ing hired to poison family with Paris
green. The price was 50, but he over
did the job and the victims recovered.
Rabbits are eating ont the ranches
in Steptoe Valley, White Pine county,
Nevada. AT night they come in whole
armies and devour the growing crops.
The first toll for the repair of
English highways was imposed in the
reign of Edward Ill. and was for re.
pairing the road between st. Giles and
Temple Bar.
Suits have been instituted in Louis
vile, Kentucky, looking TO some result
that will restrain tobacco warehouse
men from using the public highways
for storing their hOgsheads.
| -Rumors of deals among the street
railway people are floating about in So
LOUIS. There is said to be a DISPOSE
tlOn on the part of some of the railway
magnates to consolidate all the roads.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, it Is stated, has decided to
equip its passenger cars with the West
inghOuse automatic air brake. 1t has
also been decided To adopt a better
system of signals.
All kinds of fruit sell for higher
prices in the Hudson river district
than in New York. Potatoes that sell
in the city for SI.3O to SIS a barrel,
sell in New PdltZ, where they are grown,
for S2.40.
There are but three survivors OF
the eighteen actors who played Our
American Cousin on the night of
President Lincoln's assassination IN
Ford's Theatre-Harry Hawk, w. J.
Ferguson and John Mathews.
Sergeant George Fleischman. of
the Eleventh Regiment, New York,
wants any man in the National Guard
or Grand Army to walk him for six
days, equipped in heavy marching
order, as test of endurance.
The first spsctacles were made at
Florence, at about the beginning of
the fourteenth century 10y SalvinO
Armio d. Armitj, although their IN
vention has been enormously credited
both to Roger Bacon and Alexander
de Spina.
The Russian Prince, Pierre Witt
genstein. Paris despatch announces,
has died at henleon, near Brest, of
grief for his wife, the daughter of a
| Breton fisherman, whom he tad educa-
ted. He leaves his vast fortune to
Prince HohenlOhe.
The first record we have of coal is
about 800 years before the Christian
era. Coal was used as fuel IN Eng
lam as early as Sj2, and in 1924 the
first charter TO dig for il was granted
10y Henry III. to the inhabitants of
! New-castle-On-Tyn
Lovers of the waltz may celebrate
its centenary. The first dance which
could be described as a waltz was in
! troduced to the public in au opera at
! Vienna in 1ISI by one NIcent MartIny
! Solar commonly called Martini lC
Spagnuolo), who was popular COM
| poser at the court of Joseph IL
Among the papers of the late
| King of Bavaria, 1t is stated, have
been found the manuscript of two
! light operas on the style of Auber
/ "AAANSAA ~ AhA1+AcAAN " az A4t4 N4ltu LIZ
was very young. These, 1t IS added
are now to be published under the
titles the composer gave them, lies
| Fees" and defence d'Aimer"
"A doctor in 81. Louis was dis
! turbed just after he retired to bed early
the other morning 10y noises in his ward.
Taking revolver with him he peepeE
| through a window and saw man en-
| deavOrlng to force a pair of shutters on
a lower floor The doctor fired two
shots in succession, and the burglar
! who gave the name of LANCER, re-
ceived a probably fatal wound in the
neck.
Physicians are usually free from
superstition, and they generally treat
with rldlcule the class of remedies
| known as ''Old Women's cures. " But
we know of prominent member OF
| that profession, now retired from prac-
tice, who AYERS that he cured himself
| of a rheumatic trouble, of a painful
character and long standing, by carry
ing in his pocket potato about the
size of a horse chestnut. This he was
| induced TO do by an old lady friend.
and the doctor affirms, upon his honor.
that it cured him within a few months.
and that while the witnered vegetable
IS In his pocket not tlnge of the dis
ease is felt. He does not attempt tc
account for it.
"A strange freak of lightning is re-
ported from the town of Ramapo.
Rockland county, New York. The
house of August Bolger stands alone in
a remote part of the town, nearly sur,
rounded by large trees. During 3
heavy thunderstorm an unusually sharp
fash of lightning was seen, and Mr..
Bolger, who was in a shed. entered the
house and saw a pet dog and cat both
lying dead in the room near the fire
place. a dark line ran across the floor,
which was uncarpeted, and led out of
/ the front door. Going outside, Mr..
!; Bolger discovered that a part of the
railing on one side of the front stcol
, had been torn away. The lightning
evidently came down the chimney.